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zdiJose A. Vazquez of Yenteasy - Security Research -ZDI-13-222
HistorySep 11, 2013 - 12:00 a.m.

Microsoft Internet Explorer CTreePos Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

2013-09-1100:00:00
Jose A. Vazquez of Yenteasy - Security Research -
www.zerodayinitiative.com
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0.843 High

EPSS

Percentile

98.5%

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Internet Explorer. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the usage of a freed CTreePos object. The process can be forced to reuse a dangling pointer of the object resulting in a use-after-free condition. An attacker can leverage this situation to execute code under the context of the user running the browser.